Winston Churchill Quotes
58 Winston Churchill quotes by 49 unique authors
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I thought Winston Churchill was a young man of promise, but it appears he is a young man of promises.
— Arthur Balfour
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Appeasement, said Winston Churchill, consists of being nice to a crocodile in the hope that he will eat you last. At the moment, the biggest…
— John Naughton
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For over five years this man has been chasing around Europe like a madman in search of something he could set on fire. Unfortunately he…
— Adolf Hitler
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Wasn't Winston Churchill the first black president of America? There's a statue of him near me... that's black...
— Danielle O'Hara
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Well, obviously, as soon as I'd finished the script I read a lot of books on Winston Churchill, and started to gain weight and really…
— Christian Slater
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I was producing a series about Sir Winston Churchill, about which I was extremely proud, and earning a lot of money as a producer.
— Patrick Macnee
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Fancy cutting down all those beautiful trees...to make pulp for those bloody newspapers, and calling it civilisation. - Winston Churchill, remarking to his son during…
— John Vaillant
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After a heated argument on some trivial matter Nancy [Astor] . shouted, If I were your wife I would put poison in your coffee! Whereupon…
— John F. Akers
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What a creature of strange moods [Winston Churchill] is - always at the top of the wheel of confidence or at the bottom of an…
— Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook
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Had [Winston Churchill] been a stable and equable man, he could never have inspired the nation. In 1940, when all the odds were against Britain,…
— Anthony Storr
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Winston Churchill said that appetite was the most important thing about education. Leadership guru Warren Bennis says he wants to be remembered as 'curious to…
— Tom Peters
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In 1939 Winston Churchill, describing the 5000-mile peaceful border dividing Canada and the United States, said, 'That long frontier from the Atlantic to the Pacific…
— Ronald Reagan
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But I think the American people expect more from us than cries of indignation and attack. The times are too grave, the challenge too urgent,…
— John F. Kennedy
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[Winston Churchill] never spares himself in conversation. He gives himself so generously that hardly anyone else is permitted to give anything in his presence.
— Aneurin Bevan
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He [Winston Churchill] is a man suffering from petrified adolescence.
— Aneurin Bevan
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History's villains are more easily recognized in retrospect. In an article published in 1935 and reprinted in 1937, Winston Churchill expressed a curious ambivalence towards…
— Winston Churchill
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It's a good thing Winston Churchill was around before the shallow age of television. He might never have become one of the greatest leaders of…
— Neil Cavuto
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I believe that our world needs an instrument of global action as never before in history. I believe that the United Nations is the instrument…
— Kofi Annan
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Story is morally neutral. It can express profound truth or propaganda. The two greatest political storytellers of the 20th Century were Winston Churchill and Adolph…
— Robert McKee
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Winston Churchill was a man of blood and a politico without principle, whose apotheosis serves to corrupt every standard of honesty and morality in politics…
— Ralph Raico
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Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian.
— Rachel Blanchard
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Am reserving two tickets for you for my premiere. Come and bring a friend - if you have one. Telegram inviting Winston Churchill to opening…
— George Bernard Shaw
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When I meet a historian who cannot think that there have been great men, great men moreover in politics, I feel myself in the presence…
— Geoffrey Elton
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Speaking of Sir Winston Churchill: He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle.
— Edward R. Murrow
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No less a bold and pugnacious figure than Winston Churchill broke down and was unable to finish his remarks at the sendoff of the British…
— Barbara Tuchman
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